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pulmo-:
The lung is an organ belonging to the respiratory system and interfacing to the circulatory system of air-breathing vertebrates. Its function is to exchange oxygen from air with carbon dioxide from blood. The process in which this happens is called "external respiration" or breathing. The mechanism by which lungs enable respiration is called diffusion. There are also nonrespiratory functions of the lungs. ... Link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmo
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pulmo:
The lung is an organ belonging to the respiratory system and interfacing to the circulatory system of air-breathing vertebrates. Its function is to exchange oxygen from air with carbon dioxide from blood. The process in which this happens is called "external respiration" or breathing. The mechanism by which lungs enable respiration is called diffusion. There are also nonrespiratory functions of the lungs. ... Link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmo
a. loba´ris me´dia pulmo´nis dex´tri:
[TA] middle lobar artery of right lung: the branch of the right pulmonary artery that carries blood to the middle lobe of the right lung, giving rise to the lateral and medial lobar arteries. Link: www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_health_library.j...
[TA] anterior segmental artery of right lung: one of the branches of the right pulmonary artery to the superior lobe of the right lung, supplying its anterior segment; it gives rise to ascending and descending branches. Link: www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_health_library.j...
a. segmenta´lis ante´rior pulmo´nis sinis´tri:
[TA] anterior segmental artery of left lung: one of the branches of the left pulmonary artery to the superior lobe of the left lung, supplying its anterior segment; it gives rise to ascending and descending branches. Link: www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_health_library.j...